If a governing instrument creating a power of appointment expressly requires that the power be exercised by a reference, an express reference, or a specific reference, to the power or its source, it is presumed that the donor's intention, in requiring that the donee exercise the power by making reference to the particular power or to the creating instrument, was to prevent an inadvertent exercise of the power.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions
Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers
Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.
Sec. 13.12.702. Requirement of survival by 120 hours.
Sec. 13.12.703. Choice of law as to meaning and effect of governing instrument.
Sec. 13.12.704. Power of appointment; meaning of specific reference requirement.
Sec. 13.12.705. Class gifts; terms of relationship.
Sec. 13.12.709. Distribution by representation, per capita at each generation, and per stirpes.
Sec. 13.12.710. Worthier-title doctrine abolished.
Sec. 13.12.711. Interests in heirs and other persons.
Sec. 13.12.712. Nonademption of specific transfers in trust.